The Provost’s Faculty Advisory Committee on Online Learning recently sent out a request for Columbia faculty to submit proposed designs for hybrid online courses to receive between $5,000 and $20,000 for a single semester.

A new fundraising campaign is in the works to raise money for Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences after faculty members appealed to University President Lee Bollinger in May to address growing concerns about financial constraints.

The task force, co-chaired by Provost John Coatsworth and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine Lee Goldman, brings together almost 40 faculty members across the entire university. Unlike other institutions, including various cancer centers, that are also working in personalized...

After students complained last semester that the University’s policies on sexual assault were confusing and scattered online, the provost’s office is hoping that a new website will mitigate the problem.

Although Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia’s first chief digital officer, will hop across town this August to become the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first chief digital officer, he said that he still has a vested interest in Columbia’s success.

Faculty are pleased that the University has overturned a policy that would have forced some retired professors to move out of their Columbia apartments. But with an aging faculty and demand for housing on the rise, it’s still unclear how administrators might address the faculty housing space...